Super Duper Party Pooper Review

Just when you thought it was over, the developers of There’s Poop in my Soup have gone and made another turd of a game. It’s not a sequel, no that would be too easy, instead Rudder Games have decided to create something different. Before you ask; yes, it still involves poop and why wouldn’t it? Afterall, their last game was such a huge success - and that’s without a hint of sarcasm. With the developers continuing to listen to the voices their heads, they’ve decided to take a beloved concept and smear it in poop. They’ve gone and made a rhythm game. It’s a bizarre choice of genre, but you know what weirdly enough it isn’t half bad, then again so is a chicken vindaloo it’s what comes after that ruins the flow and the bowl.

To start let me just say the title, Super Duper Party Pooper, is brilliant. I can only imagine the gleeful joy and smiles upon the developer’s faces as they stood up like an eureka moment at the title. With a title that will make the immature, like me, giggle, as soon you start playing you’ll discover a rhythm game that’s really full of crap and when I say crap, I mean food. Playing as your own created, arse faced party goer you’re there to ruin everybody's time. The game has no story, the closest you’ll get is the store description, which asks the question: “Have you ever wanted to poop on party goers but were too socially awkward to just go for it? Super Duper Party Pooper is about to change all that.” - Besides being a question that even the greatest thinkers of our time would refuse to answer, I was disappointed by the lack of any story, so I decided to make one up and describe the game.

After becoming psychotic after the events of poop-ageddon from the previous game, your ass-faced avatar decides to take a holiday. After an evening of drinks and partying they head to the buffet and at this point an uncontrollable urge overcomes and they can’t stop eating and eating, being fed by delusion hands. After having their fill, to the beat of terrible party music the call of nature hits them, so instead of heading to the bathroom like a normal person, they decide the best place to evacuate their bowels and presumably to settle some kind of grudge is by tossing their turds at party goers. How hilarity ensues as your avatar continues this across four different countries and parties, pinching the loaf till they eventually and inevitably get blown up by a well deserved hidden bomb.

That’s the game in a nutshell, but when it comes to actually playing you’ll only be needing your keyboard. Since Super Duper Party Pooper is a rhythm game some actual rhythm is required, or you could drink till you tell yourself you’ve got rhythm. To begin you are required to use the Q,E,A,D keys to use your avatar’s lizard like tongue to shove food down their gullet. Each key corresponds to corners of your screen, this requires timing as the food appears you have snap within beat of the music in order to gain the poo-fect score. The higher the score the fuller your avatar becomes providing you with more poo-jectiles to go crazy with at the end of feast. Higher the score, the more levels you’ll unlock. The other levels introduce not one, but two mechanics, if you can handle it. Appearing before you will be more plates of food and milkshakes, yummy. Using your ninja like timing, you must wait for the green light to appear and use the W or S keys in order to devour the food. Be careful though, as the food brought forth can trick you with a bomb, if eaten, you’ll go boom and it’s game over.

So if you’ve got any sense you’ll stop playing by that point, but oddly as the beats kick in and you get yourself into a groove you might just become addicted and you can even step it up a notch by using the poorly implemented custom tracks feature. After all why wouldn’t you not want to enjoy that moment of irony as you rain poop upon party goers whilst listening to Rihanna’s Umbrella.

As much as the title is memorable and is certainly a bit of a giggle, beyond this we get another forgetful short lived game. Visually terrible and on-par with the likes of a mobile game, Super Duper Party Pooper is another fun for a few minutes time-waster that’s eventually flushed away among your other forgotten steam games. Fortunately if you do decided a play, it’ll only set you back 79p. If you’re looking for a worthwhile rhythm game you ought to look somewhere else. As for the future of Rudder Games, I genuinely believe they want to turn their “poop” games into a franchise, and even try and get a cult following. Their number two game, is better than the previous entry, but if they continue to make any more and I bet they will, their efforts will eventually become nothing more than that massive turd that just won’t flush.